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• A May Update: Gatsbys Ending Quote, My New Kindle, Reading Plans

  
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  The Kindle X-Ray feature, here showing character appearances in Great Expectations My second year of university is officially over. Exams are done, keys returned, and Im back at home ready to commence a summer of reading, blogging, and general lounging about. Theres only one thing missing: sun. Reading can quite ...
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• Natasha, Imelda and the Great Immersion of 2013

  
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  The waiters were serving borscht and blinis while we sat at our tables in the faux-Russian supper club, waiting for the show to start the other night. A sociable young women in 19th-century period dress stopped by to welcome us and asked if we had everything we needed. As long as you asked, I said, my friend here ...
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• What to read? (Part 9) Reading Together

  
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  Reading is usually seen as a silent, solitary activity, but it doesn’t have to be. Whether you’re reading aloud with a child or a friend, having a spirited discussion in a book club setting, or joining in with a “One Book, One City” program or a World Book Night event, reading together is a unique [...] The ...
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• Rise of Cooperatives and Credit Unions is Revolutionizing the US Economy

  
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  Share This:   Recently I was listening to an engrossing radio interview with the visionary economist and author, Gar Alperovitz, as he was discussing his new book, What Then Must We Do? ,  which highlights the rise of cooperatives, worker ownership and the restructuring of our ...
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• The ABCD’s of Parenting – Part 4

  
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• My Horse Came in Second, Russian Translators, & Did Dickens Meet Dostoevsky?

  
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  Golden Soul Isn’t Golden Soul gorgeous? We got home just in time to watch the Kentucky Derby. Every year it starts when–5:25?–and I watch the horses and jockeys and pick my winner.  I picked Golden Soul minutes before the Kentucky Derby started. He was such a long shot that everyone thought I was being ...
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• The A-Team of Russian Literary Translation

  
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  The Russian ClassicsAn article, by  Kevin Mahnken, in Humanities looks into the lives of Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, the most notable and famous translation team of the Russian classics. If you desire an exceptional faithful rendering in English of the Russian classics, you would be hard-pressed not ...
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• War and Peace: Check-In #4

  
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  The selected section for the month April during the War and Peace Read Along were the first two parts of Book II. I have to admit that I found these two parts much more enjoyable than the parts we read for February and March. As Helen put it in a comment, “I was happy that there was more ‘peace’ than ...
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• Movie Review: Anna Karenina (2012)

  
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  The English director Joe Wright has often treated dramatizing his material as a secondary concern. He has generally seemed more interested in using the script as a springboard for his directorial virtuosity. He has never before taken this to the extravagant lengths he does in Anna Karenina, and this time it leaves one ...
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• Thoughts on: War & Peace: Book 4 Part 3

  
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  About: War and Peace by Leo Tol­stoy is a fic­tional book first pub­lished in 1869. The work is regarded as one of the most impor­tant works of world lit­er­a­ture . The copy I read was trans­lated by Louise and Aylmer Maude. 1350 pages Pub­lisher: Oxford Uni­ver­sity Press, USA; New edition ...
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• Giveaway winners!

  
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  The winners have been chosen … and contacted. 1. Stacy Would love to visit: The Golden Compass/Northern Lights by Phillip Pullman For one, I’ve always wanted to live in England and I adore fantasy so living in an parallel England where there were witches, talking animals, and where everyone has a daemon ...
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• Anna Karenina

  
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  Nine hours of power shutdown on a weekend can drive one to boredom and idleness. Not with me though. I did what I’ve been putting off for a long time. One dreary Saturday, with no electricity at home, and wanting to do something worthwhile, I decided to read a book . I didn’t grab one from the shelves but instead ...
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• A Garden of Inspiration – A Story of Leo Tolstoy

  
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  Leo Tolstoy via wikimedia A young boy once lived in a house in a forest. He and his brothers played in the woods, ponds and fields that surrounded their home. One day an older brother told the child about a green stick that was buried near a ravine in the deepest part of the forest.  If you find the stick,  the ...
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• You Cant Defend a Poem

  
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  There is no argument by which one can defend a poem. It defends itself by surviving, or it is indefensible. –George Orwell, "Lear, Tolstoy and the Fool," in George Orwell: In Front of Your Nose, 1946-1950 , 302 . This is an often-quoted statement by Orwell. He says this in his discussion of Leo Tolstoys ...
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• Alexander Nazaryan: Blood and Tragedy -- The Caucasus in the Literary Imagination

  
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  Alexander Nazaryan is on the editorial board of the New York Daily News, where he edits the Page Views book blog. At the beginning of “The Cossacks,” Leo Tolstoy’s early novel about imperial Russia’s military campaign in the Caucasus, the protagonist Olenin muses about the battles to come: “All his dreams ...
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• ‘By Heart, not Rote’: some observations on geeks and geekiness

  
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  Chrissie Amphlett and the Divinyls provided a decent chunk of the soundtrack to my young life; reports of her early death (aged 53) hit me in the childhood memories, hard, much like the arrest of Rolf Harris, or pictures of Berliners crawling over the remains of the Wall. I have, by saying those things, disclosed my ...
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• What They Were Reading: Clive James

  
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  “AfterShakespeare, my favorite poet is Dante. My favorite novelists are Proust andTolstoy, closely followed by Scott Fitzgerald, and perhaps Hemingway when heisn’t beating his chest. But in all my life I never enjoyed anything more thanthe first pieces I read by S. J. Perelman.” “Idon’t do much ...
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• Leo Tolstoy inspirational quote about change

  
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